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Evernote isn’t ideal for task management but works well as a reference tool. According to Meg Edwards, President of GTD Focus, she uses OmniFocus for managing tasks and Evernote for storing reference materials.

As an analysit Im taking his complaints personally hahah. I'd love to sit down and take requirements and build this feature by feature.

I do agree, even though is the same idea over and over, it is the way it is told, by who is told and the moment is told that makes click in your brain. I understand that from the point of view of Mr. Allen, the idea has been told billions times at this moment but in the side of the audience there always somebody new to the idea or if not new at least it is ready to hear it. Thanks for this video. ❤

There is no "Export after right click on a selected notebook!

I'll give this system a try. Tks!

Glad to learn about this new feature. Being a visual person, this will make it easier for me to locate notes. Thank you.

Thanks, Dave. Personally I am a visually-oriented person, so I am finding that the new ability to control which image in your note serves as the note thumbnail to be quite useful. One question: is there a way in the iOS app version of Evernote to remove a thumbnail image without selecting another one? I can’t find a way.

Back in 1994, David Allen drafted 19 pen-and-ink flow charts that he said came close to capturing the whole GTD process - but even they couldn't completely capture all the thought processes in GTD. And he (David Allen) essentially answers the question at 5:40 in the video: "You can make anything work - ToDoist, Trello, Asana, you can make any of those work, but only as long as you yourself know what YOU need to do, and how to do it. The tool won't tell you that."

I think the best approach is to schedule your more importants taks - no more than three - in the previous day and block time in your calendar to do the tasks.

I attempted to schedule my tasks on the calendar, but it doesn’t seem to be working effectively. Tasks often take longer than anticipated, leading to frequent adjustments and rearrangements. However, I appreciate the feature that provides a comprehensive view of my schedule, allowing me to assess my daily time allocation and ensure that I’m on track to complete my tasks efficiently.

Thanks for the "basics" when it comes to Evernote. I am a new user, and must be doing something wrong when setting up stacks. My "main" stack has duplicate info within it from the other notebooks nesting under. Example: Clients (stack) then Notebooks for each: Client A, Client B, Client C...all the info within each of those notebooks can be seen when I click on Clients (stack), is that the way is was meant to work? Please help me understand...TY

Good

Greetings, I am currently exporing the spaces function, but I noticed I can't actually delete spaces that have been created in the spaces tab. Some of these spaces seemingly have been created by the evernote team themselves.... I was wondering if you know when evernote is going to enable to fucntionality to actually delete spaces in the spaces tab?

I do not use the Daily Note as I have an ongoing To Do List with Checkboxes. All I need to do is change the date on it each evening after I have amended it & it is readily available in my Shortcuts. My method also means I only have one ongoing note each day and do not end up with 365 by the end of the year. However, for those that do "journal", I can see this would be handy. * Suggestion: Daily Note would be better if 1. You could select from the WHOLE EN Template Gallery, not just the three that you showed. (I might then enable it occasionally as required with various templates). 2. It seems to me that you would need to edit the template daily (from the three supplied) to suit you unless they can be initially edited and saved prior to using Daily Note.

Suggestion: If 'Stacks' could be moved to a 'Space", this would be a super powerful feature!

Thanks Dave - very informative video. I will now be creating Spaces for Town Council Committees & Sub Committees as one Note with MANY Backlinks to other Committee Notes is becoming too large. Ref End of Year tidy up: I do exactly what you suggested; create an Archive Notebook and dump the previous year's Notes in it. (Search/Filtering can find all the Notes based on Creation Date). I also Duplicate specific Notes like To Do Lists , Tag them as "Backup" & move them to a Backup Notebook. This has saved me more than once! Stacks are also useful (I'm too used to PC's with Folders & Files as containers - I hail from the MSDOS days!!). I am also a fan of Tags & spent a long time considering what I needed and "stacked" them as well e.g. Financial, Shopping, Receipt, Online, Membership, Insurance, Tax etc. Anything that falls under a Financial heading. All my notes have a maximum of 3 Tags which I amend regularly. I minimised it to this so specific notes can be searched for which fall in the same "category" e.g. Financial, Receipt, Insurance or DIY, Kitchen, Electrical etc... Web Clipper is also a God Send for collecting information! Looking forward to your other videos.

Spaces do not segregate _namespaces_ for notebook names, tags, etc.... they do not create a separate _context_ for notebooks. 😞

Hi Dave ... when on your next call with Evernote ... maybe you could ask them why the most basic function of exporting a PDF from a note does not retain proper spacing and format ... after all of these years as a paid customer ... Evernote will still "not" create an accurate PDF document as it appears in the actual note ... and yes, I have written to them over and over ... I'll never understand why this is not a "foundational" feature they should correct ... so many good changes with the new takeover, but still one can't export a true PDF doc .... maybe your voice would make a difference ... as always, appreciate your videos!!

I am not new to GTD nor to Evernote, but I am revisiting both after a hiatus of several years. Dave's videos have been a voice of clarity in my getting to a trusted system. Well worth the time for any Evernote user to watch his series.

Thanks!

Good job being consistent with the videos! GTD really helps giving purpose to note taking, instead of Just Gathering data for the sake of it. Quick question though, what if after a while I have gathered a lot of "reference material" and its piling up? Is doing a review or cleanse of notes part of the GTD methodology as well? If not how would you approach that?

How do I delete a space?

Any idea how to delete a Space?

evernote was good back in the day everyone has caught up its now obsolete

Thanks for these good news. Are these spaces another level of hierarchy in Evernote? Until now there are the Stacks with Notebooks inside and each Notebook has Notes inside (Stacks > Notebooks > Notes). This was a limitation of Evernote to support only 3 levels of hierarchy. Are these spaces now another level like: Spaces > Stacks > Notebooks > Notes?

Thanks for this video Dave. I took some time to play around with the new Spaces features today, and started to get really excited when I saw that the underlying architecture allowed for mirroring of data at more than one location in my database. However, I now see that this is managed at the hierarchy level of Notebooks instead of with standalone, individual notes. Over the years I have minimized my dependency on Evernote folders (Notebooks), so moving a mirrored copy of one of my (large) Notebooks into a Space is, unfortunately for me, not particularly useful. If you would like to share my thoughts on your next call with the Evernote Experts Group, I'd be really interested to know if anyone else has expressed similar feedback... or if I fall into an outlier category... wouldn't be the first time (LOL).

Thanks

Thank you for explaining the SPACES feature. How do I show my "Work" SPACE view on my Evernote HOME page?

I cannot find the option to "export note" ANYWHERE. Not on the three dots above the note, not by right-clicking the note. NOWHERE does it say Export Note on my version of Evernote.

There was a video many many moons ago of David showing us his home setup for GTD when he lived in California back in 2008, I believe. I remember him carrying around a digital recorder for voice memos and reminders. I have experimented with all digital systems, then all paper, hence the 80 or so hanging folders that are now empty. My system today is a hybrid of both systems, utilizing tags in my digital format to quickly find information, as well as searchable PDFS. Ever so often, I test my system to see if I can find information within 30 seconds, that is always a fun exercise to do. You will always find gaps when testing and it will allow you become better at filing reference information. Just like FAQ's I have a digital footprint file that I log where I am putting stuff that is not in the office to help me remember. For example, tote bin label number 4 has all the Christmas dining and serveware.

Great video. Fair note for those with ADHD: we tend to NOT feel drawn to do what we’re supposed to do (or often even WANT to do). So I always have to question what I feel compelled to do. People often don’t realize this applies to FUN, not just boring work (ADHD). (Heck, I even have to force myself to relax and play video games even if I WANT to play them!! I will do everything else but sit down and play). Good times. Lol

great video and such a clear presenter

At timestamp 7:12 you show a full-screen view of all your tags. Where do I find that view? I used to be able to see it, but now I can't figure out how to get there

Hi Dave. You did not mention it but EN has nested tags. Is it a good idea or you don´t recommend it

I just want to drag and drop a note to rearrange its order. I'm not interested in the sorting work arounds.

Hi Dave - wanted to leave a Thank you Note (pun intended) here. Appreciate this series 3 years later!

Ohhhhhhh. You believe in me… that blows my mind

So im not working?

Ima do the rest of my stuff and sleep. I didn’t realize how bad yall wanted to get back to work. I have to question the reasoning tho. In case you haven’t noticed yet, reasoning goes a long way for me

Is there a deadline

Actually, I have been using Evernote for more than 5 years and never knew about Daily Note. Thank you for discussing it.

Very useful, clarifying advice, Dave.

This is a fantastic interview!

Fantastic explanation of these concepts, Dave. Really clear.

Isn’t this the same as the pdf annotation tool that’s been in Evernote since the early days? I’ve always found this tool cumbersome and it didn’t look like they’ve improved it.

It doesn't work on ipad or iphone. So, its kinda useless feature actually

Been using this system for years. Tags are so much more powerful and flexible than Folders. The only problem I have is that Evernote on my iPhone frequently doesn’t load all of the files with a tag despite my clicking on the tag to view its files. Right now I’m looking at an upcoming event tag with over 20 files and my iPhone Evernote reports “No notes found”. Hopefully, the Evernote team will realize how much better Tags are than Folders for productivity and put some staff on fixing the bugginess across their platforms for viewing tagged files. Thanks for the vid!

I never considered that teleconferencing faced resistance, though it does not surprise me. I wonder what the excuses people gave were, and how they would compare to people's resistance to meetings and working in VR.

I use the journaling template each day. I really like having my journal in EN. Questions: am I able to modify the template? Why does EN keep creating duplicate, blank templates? It is a minor annoyance but I would like to modify the template to eliminate the extra blank space and remove a couple of the sections. Otherwise I really like the daily notes.

Everybody should “get this” right now!